Sr. Software Engineer, Core Platforms
Waymo · Mountain View, CA · CSI (7LV)
About this role
Waymo is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Mountain View, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Linux, Machine Learning, Performance Optimization and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $204,000–$259,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- CSI (7LV)
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Job description
from Waymo careersWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
The Core Platform team is responsible for software and infrastructure on several components of the Waymo self-driving system. The team’s scope covers everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth data logging, IPC (low-latency and high-throughput), performance analysis, full-system debugging, system telemetry, and reliability. We work closely with the Hardware, Compute, Sensor, Perception, Behavior and Machine Learning teams to build the most performant and low-latency self-driving solution in the industry.
This positions reports to the Tech Lead Manager.
You will:
- Work on a small team of Software Engineers to develop system software components from early prototyping to production launch of autonomous vehicles